Job 30:4-6

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 30:4 tn Or “the leaves of bushes” (ESV), a possibility dating back to Saadia and discussed by G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray (Job [ICC], 2:209) in their philological notes.
2. Job 30:4 tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.
3. Job 30:4 tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.
4. Job 30:5 tn The word גֵּו (gev) is an Aramaic term meaning “midst,” indicating “midst [of society].” But there is also a Phoenician word that means “community” (DISO 48).
5. Job 30:5 tn The form simply is the plural verb, but it means those who drove them from society.
6. Job 30:5 tn The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.
7. Job 30:6 tn This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see GKC 348-49 §114.h, k).
8. Job 30:6 tn The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see GKC 431 §133.h).